Providence in Colonial Times [Rhode Island]

xxi, 392 pp. Forty-six plates, including a frontispiece of Market Square, a fold-out map of Providence, facsimiles of title pages of colonial publications and original documents, etc. Contents include: Introduction; The Planter and His Plantation; The Age of the Charters; Roger Williams and the Town of Providence - King Philip's War; The Seventeenth Century; A Group of Newcomers and King's Church; Progress, Ecclesiastical and Secular; The Shipping Trade; The Colonial Town of Providence; Rhode Island College and the 'Baptist Cathedral'; Providence Houses, 1785-1830; Index.